Every year we select a group or groups whose work we believe is worthy of
attention. This year we would like to honor F.A.U.N. From their website:

"FAUN is a coalition of New Jersey-based animal/earth liberation activists
who are bound by the twin objectives of exposing and working against the
perpetrators of overt & clandestine animal exploitation wherever they are
operating in our geographic sphere.

We are firmly united in our commitment to publicizing animal-use industries'
profit-driven lies and illusions, as well as engaging in the practical,
street-level action so essential to bringing about the local (and ultimately
universal) abolition of retrograde, dark-age practices that systematically
exploit and destroy countless nonhuman sentient beings, and the Earth
itself...."

Brothers Anthony and Nick Botti have done a phenomenal job of bringing together
a coalition of NY and NJ activists and they have stoked up the embers of animal
rights activism in New Jersey into a roaring fire. Since they started the
organization F.A.U.N., they have had street actions, protests and rallies every
weekend and usually on multiple days. They have taken on the issues of fur,
vivisection and live markets. They employ the kind of strategies and tactics
that will ensure that their campaigns will be successful.

In addition to waging their own campaigns, they have actively and
aggressively supported the campaigns of other groups including Win Animal
Rights. Always upbeat and positive, always willing to give their all, we believe
that FAUN is a group worth watching and worth get involved with. Please visit
their website and support their work. On Thursday, December 23, 2010, they will
be conducting their last Live Animal Market demo of the season. If you are in
the area, please join them: